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Selective tweeting of COVID-19 articles: Does title or abstract positivity influence dissemination?

2021-06-24 health informatics Title + abstract only
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BackgroundPrevious research has shown that articles may be cited more frequently on the basis of title or abstract positivity. Whether a similar selective sharing practice exists on Twitter is not well understood. The objective of this study was to assess if COVID-19 articles with positive titles or abstracts were tweeted more frequently than those with non-positive titles or abstracts. MethodsCOVID-19 related articles published between January 1st and April 14th, 2020 were extracted from the L...

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